PA Bill Aims to Prevent People From Other States Filling Painkiller Prescriptions
A bill introduced in Pennsylvania is designed to prevent people from other states from filling painkiller prescriptions there.
State Representative Brandon Neuman wants to amend state law to help
prevent people from using cash to obtain narcotics by visiting different
doctors and pharmacies in the state, the Associated Press reports.
“The dealers are moving out. Now pharmacies are seeing these
customers with all kinds of sob stories from Ohio, Kentucky, West
Virginia and Tennessee,” he told the AP.
The bill would set up a Pennsylvania Accountability Monitoring System
database, which would alert doctors and pharmacies when patients who
have already received an adequate supply of opioids try to obtain
another prescription.
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